Need Freeper Help Finding Chemical Attack Info In U.S.

11-23-03 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

There was a story from a month ago about a muslim walking into a bank and spraying a chemical agent and people getting sick. Can someone post this link to me on this thread and maybe a reason why the story was buried?

Thanks

[My Favorite Headache]

This was listed as a "perfume" attack if memory is correct and msnbc covered this story?

[RLK]

I never heard anything about ir.

[My Favorite Headache]

This is soooo frustrating. It was a story from MSNBC that had a muslim or 2 muslims who walked into a bank in Texas and sprayed a chemical agent...many people got sick. But the story got buried.

[nutmeg]

Did you ever see this story?

[FairOpinion]

The only place I've seen it, is here:

http://www.stevequayle.com/

It's in his Archived Alerts:

http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/03_Terror/030823.terror.archives.html

I have not seen it in any main or even lesser news source.

This guy may have sources, but I am having trouble believing this particular incident, because if it had really happened, with a number of real people involved, I can't imagine that it wouldn't have gotten into the regular media.

[FairOpinion]

Another place which posts alerts, and it's up to each of us, how much of it is or isn't real, but it's interesting to follow, is:

http://www.hagmannpi.com/terror.htm

[RandallFlagg]

I thought you might be interested in this one.

[My Favorite Headache]

Bingo that was the one...for some reason I thought it was Texas. But it was Concord, CA. Thanks!

[RaceBannon]

I just saw that this morning, did a quick google, found it only on FR.

[ex-Texan]

The California report is presented along with another unexplained case of unexplained simultaneous illnesses in many people the FBI is investigation in Salem, Oregon HERE. Sources include Steve Quayle and primary news sites.

[My Favorite Headache]

Bump to this story! First I am hearing of it...another test run???

[TaxRelief]

This article actually reports on two "tests" of two different gases in the same area. Don't forget that they are only speculating that Green Onions caused the Chi-Chi's situation in PA.

[Nita Nupress]

This is the first I've heard of this. I would appreciate it if you would please ping me to any future related news. Thanks.

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The Oregonian
November 19, 2003 Wednesday

24 FALL ILL AT COSTCO OUTLET IN SALEM
JANIE HAR - The Oregonian

Summary: Public safety and health officials are unable to pinpoint the source of the sickness and reopen the warehouse store after five hours

Two dozen people were treated at a hospital and hundreds evacuated after several customers fell ill at a Costco warehouse store shortly before noon Tuesday.

The store reopened about five hours later after no apparent cause was found.

In all, 13 shoppers, five employees and six emergency workers were treated at Salem Hospital. Blood tests showed nothing abnormal, spokeswoman Sheryll Hoar said, and she expected all patients to be discharged Tuesday night.

Initial reports were two customers apparently had seizures and two reported a burning sensation in their throats, falling ill by the checkout line said Bill Holmstrom, a Salem Fire Department spokesman. Another person was found unconscious by the bathroom.

County and state public safety and health officials could not determine the cause of the illnesses, and by 5 p.m. the store at 1010 Hawthorne Ave. S.E. was reopened. The FBI, Marion County health department and state Department of Agriculture assisted in the investigation.

"There's nothing obvious at the scene of a criminal nature or to indicate the source of the illness," said Lt. Dan Cary, spokesman for the Salem Police Department. "I don't think it's coincidence those folks all got sick at the same time and at the same place. It's bizarre."

Craig Jelinek, Costco executive vice president, called the incident a "non-event."

"We have a whole uproar down there and nothing's happened after one man had a seizure and that is it," he said.

Holmstrom said fire workers evacuated 300 to 500 people, 110 of them employees. His department received the initial call at 11:30 a.m. Later, another person fell ill in the parking lot. Other people reported feeling sick once they left the store premises.

Jeff Solheim, a nursing manager in Salem Hospital's emergency room, said common patient symptoms included "headache and some weakness. Some have complained of nausea." Symptoms appeared to indicate an airborne cause inhaled by patients, officials said.

Hazardous-materials officials checked the entire store, including the refrigerators.

"We heard people explain that's where they were feeling bad," said Steve Hester, hazardous materials coordinator with the Salem Fire Department.